Festival of French Music - The Fete De La Musique

The annual festival of French music or Fete de la Musique in France is known as an extraordinary event that brings the whole country alive with a wide range of musical performances for an entire day each year.

The driving force of the music festival was de Maurice Fleuret (presented by the minister Jack Lang), who as music director in 1981 took up the idea of ​​"everyway music concerts and anywhere." Understand that five million young French people has played an instrument or sing, in other words, one in two, Fleuret essentially proposed to them to realize their dreams and in the streets of the show he wanted to make.

The first event was launched on the summer solstice of June 21, 1982 under the slogan of "play music, music to celebrate." Professional musicians and amateurs took the flag, mostly spontaneously and performed jazz, rock and traditional music, and classical performers all in a performance of great peoples. They have not looked back since.

The event is now enjoyed by millions of people all over France and became an important source of attraction for visitors. In almost every city across the country artists of all categories in the streets and run their socks off, while all the other boogie down. The country rocks! Especially in a hotspot Nice, Bordeaux and Paris, where the nature of the city lends itself admirably to such benefits.

The services are free, royalties are suspended for the day and the global event is widely supported by the media with the French television with some of the greatest entertainers and cover smaller events. If you want to know what's going on 21 in the main cities of France there is a French language website, which lists what is where: fete-de-la-musique.cityvox.com and is also a possible source of information through the offices French local tourism. It 's important not to expect more of these are not the main professional activities, are generally people who might not normally get the opportunity to enter into a business that is so tight in the grip of the engines and shakers of the music industry. There are acts that play, which are well known in France as Tokio Hotel, and he played Joachim Garraud 2007, just do not expect Oasis or Duffy to raise.

Going forward with the right frame of mind and you can not enjoy a day full of music that extends until late summer. An outdoor location, such as port de Nice, throbbing with people dancing on a warm evening is very memorable experience even if I do not understand a word of what is being sung.

The event has been exported to other parts of the globe in less than fifteen years, a form of music from the party has appeared in over 100 countries on five continents, including cities such as Berlin, Budapest, Barlecona, Liverpool, Luxembourg, Rome, Naples and Prague.

How strange that a festival celebrating the music genius exists only on such a grand scale in a country that looks enviously across the Channel the great abundance of musical talent on offer in the United Kingdom. If we have a seemingly unstoppable stream of artists who recklessly produce a steady stream of hits that populate the charts around the world, we have only limited participation in a potentially important event to celebrate art in which we clearly excel .......